Publish your Diagrams on the Internet

Differences between Public and Private diagrams

There are 2 types of diagrams in Creately:

Public Diagrams are automatically published and shared with the Creately community. It is the default mode for diagrams created with a Creately Public account. This means that although the short creately URL is obfuscated, the diagram is available for anyone to find, view and use as a template through the Creately public diagram directory. In addition Public diagrams can be indexed by search engines and their crawlers.

Private Diagrams are never published and is the default mode for diagrams created with a Paid account. To make a diagram public, simply Publish it.

Publishing a Diagram

Creately makes sharing your diagrams a breeze. There are 2 ways to publish your diagram on the Internet, namely:

Publish an Image of you Diagram (with Short URL)

All Diagrams created with a Free Account are Public Diagrams and are automatically published to a special URL (e.g. http://creately.com/diagram/example/gsx1cnem2). Paid users create Private Diagrams by default which must be explicitly published. Publishing creates a web link to the Creately Diagram Viewer page of your diagram. Try out the zoom, pan and sharing features as you browse the diagrams.

Click the Publish button on the Right of the Creately application to reveal the Publish Panel.

Note - With Creately Desktop, this Publish panel/button will be disabled if you're not connected to the web. So you need to have internet connectivity. Also, make sure you've activated the 'Diagrams Anywhere' feature from the Preferences window before you click to publish the diagram on the internet or embed your diagrams into a blog or website.

To publish a web-accessible image of your diagram, simply tick the checkbox Publish Diagram Image. This is automatically checked for Free accounts. Once the diagram is published, you will see a short URL in the Text Field below. This is the permanent short URL link to the Creately Diagram Viewer page of your diagram.

Embed a Diagram Widget into a blog or website

If you'd like to embed your diagram into a blog or website, simply publish your diagram and then copy and paste the widget code into your webpage's HTML code.

How do I embed a Creately Diagram Viewer in my Wiki, Blog or Website?

Click the Publish button on the Right of the Creately application to reveal the Publish Panel.

Note - With Creately Desktop, this Publish panel/button will be disabled if you're not connected to the web. So you need to have internet connectivity. Also, make sure you've activated the 'Diagrams Anywhere' feature from the Preferences window before you click to publish the diagram on the internet or embed your diagrams into a blog or website.

To embed a diagram, first tick the checkbox "Publish Diagram Image". This is automatically checked for Free accounts.

Once the diagram is published, you will see a short URL in the Text Field below. Now click the Embed Image button to reveal the widget creation dialog.

The Embed Diagram Dialog lets you configure the size of the embeddable Diagram Viewer Widget so it fits perfectly into any webpage. Click the Select and Copy button to copy the code to your clipboard.

You can then paste this HTML code into any web page, wiki or blog. The widget always fetches the latest version of your diagram, and provides Zoom and Pan features so even the largest diagrams are still clear and easy to navigate.

Mouseover to see the Diagram Viewer in action

How do I share my diagrams via Social Media Sites?

We love to make it easy to share and collaborate. So we decided to go a little further and let you post your diagrams on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Simply Publish you diagram, and share it via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn with just 1-click!